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BIR BulletinPublished Online:29 May 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-60-714-B29SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail AboutAbstract“Now, what I want is FACTS”: Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times by Charles Dickens (1812–1870)Every aspect of the Chernobyl accident cannot be included in the space of a few pages and since the cause of the accident (mainly human error but with design faults contributing) has been described in many publications, as have the effects of the fallout on the food chain, this short review does not include these topics. An assessment of the number of excess cancer deaths due to the Chernobyl accident has also been excluded, for the good reason that accurate predictions are not yet available. “After Chernobyl” is therefore a factual account of interesting information on the evacuation and relocation of the population within a 30 km zone around the power plant, of decontamination efforts, of the entombment of the reactor (termed colloquially “the Sarcophagus”, a title used by the Science Correspondent of Pravda, Vladimir Gubaryev, for the play widely performed in the Soviet Union and which in April–June 1987 was a Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Barbican Theatre in the City of London), and of the heroic firemen of Chernobyl, not all of whom survived. Previous article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 60, Issue 714June 1987Pages: 519-B36 © The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineMay 29,2014 Metrics Download PDF
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